The Communication Age: Connecting and Engaging
Video and Multimedia
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LO-2.1: Identify the ways in which we select information from the environment to form perceptions.
Video: Selective Perception
Similar to the Monkey Business Illusion, video demonstrates various ways optical illusions play tricks on our perception.
LO-2.2: Describe how we organize and interpret information to make sense of the world.
Web Link: The Negative in Positive Stereotypes
Why positive stereotypes have their downsides
Audio: The Stereotype Threat
How a female professional poker player is stereotyped by her male colleagues
LO-2.3: Describe the factors that lead to differences in perception, and how those differences influence communication.
Video: Self Image
Gothman’s belief that we present ourselves as an act to all people.
Web Link: The Critical Media Project: LGBTQ
Media portrayals of the LGBT population and its consequences
LO-2.4: Explain the nature of the self and its relationship to communication.
Video The Self Worth Project
Everyday people and the connection between their own self-image and self-esteem expressed nonverbally
LO-2.5: Explain how communication continuously creates and influences identity
Video Symbolic Interactionism
How people’s behaviors in interaction with others in social settings are governed by their conception of themselves.
Web Link: So Much For Reinventing Ourselves Online
How the opportunity for online anonymity is fading